Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.